Sergej Prokof'ev
Il giocatore
(Igrok')
Libretto by Sergei Prokofiev
New Production
June
2008: 16 (20:00), 19 (20:00), 21 (20:00), 24 (20:00), 26 (20:00), 28 (20:00), 30 (20:00)
The Opera
Il giocatore
Online ticket sale closed
Approximate Running Time:
2 hours 30 minutes
Dostoevsky’s autobiographic novel dramatised to portray the human weakness for roulette with grotesque anger, and the jokes of the self-destructive temptation of gambling that can also be latent in the apparently most balanced minds.
Conductor
Daniel Barenboim
Staging, Sets and Costumes
Dmitri Tcherniakov
Characters
Cast
The General
Vladimir Ognovenko
Pauline
Kristina Opolais
Alexis
Misha Didyk
Babulenka
Stefania Toczyska
Marquis
Stephan Rügamer
Mr Astley
Victor Rud
Blanche
Silvia De La Muela
Prince Nilsky/Hunch-backed gambler
Gianluca Pasolini
Baron Wurmerhelm/Old gambler
Alessandro Paliaga
Potapych
Plamen Kumpikov
The director
Gleb Nikolsky
First croupier
Robert Hebenstreit
Second croupier
Gregory Bonfatti
The tall Englishman
Alexander Teliga
The fat Englishman
Gianfranco Montresor
Garish Lady
Enas Massalha
Pale Lady
Alisa Zinovjeva
Insignificant Lady
Elizabeth Laurence
Respectable lady
Constance Heller
Perfidious Elderly Lady
Borjana Mateeva
Compulsive Gambler
Ki Hyun Kim
Sick gambler
Otokar Klein
Unfortunate gambler
Ilya Kuzmin
The six gamblers
Enrico Cossutta, Alessandro Luciano, Mattia Denti
Matteo Ferrara, Daniel Golossov, Roberto Tagliavini
Matteo Ferrara, Daniel Golossov, Roberto Tagliavini
In coproduction with the Staatsoper Berlin Unter den Linden
